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A narrative or description having a second meaning beneath the surface one

allegory

a reference, explicit or implicit, to something in literature or history

allusion

repetition of an opening word or phrase in a series of lines

anaphora

a figure of speech in which someone absent or dead or something nonhuman is addressed as if it were alive and present and could reply

apostrophe

the repetition at close intervals of the vowel sounds of accented syllables or important words

assonance

unrhymed iambic pentameter

blank verse

a harsh, discordant, unpleasant-sounding choice and arragement of sounds

cacophony

a speech pause occurring within a line

caesura

what a word suggests beyond its basic definition; a word's overtones of meaning

connotation

the repetition at close intervals of the final consonant sounds of accented sylables or important words

consonance

two successive lines, usually in the same meter, lined by rhyme

cuplet

Inversion of the normal syntactic order of words

anastrophe

the speaker poses a question and then answers the question.

hypophora

the basic definition or dictionary meaning of a word

denotation

a sonnet rhyming ababcdcdefefgg, its content or structure ideally parallels the rhyme scheme, falling into three corrdinate quatrains and a concluding couplet

English/Shakespearean sonnet

a smooth, pleaseant-sounding choice and arrangement of sounds

euphony

a figure of speech sustained or developed through a considerable number of lines or through a whole poem

extended/sustained figure

a rhyme in which the repeated accented vowel is in either the second or third last syllable of the words involved (for example, ceiling-appealing, hurrying-currying)

feminine rhyme

nonmetrical poetry in which the basic rhythmic unit is the line, and in which pauses, line breaks, and formal patterns develop organically from the reguirements of the individual poem rather than from established poetic forms; unrhymed; no set metrical pattern

free verse

a figure of speech in which exaggeration is used in service of truth

overstatement/hyperbole

the representation through language of sense experience

imagery

a sonnet consisting of an octave rhyming abbaabba and of a sestet using any arrangement of two or three additional rhymes, such as cdcdcd or cdecde

italian/petrarchan sonnet

a figure of speech in which some significant aspect or detail of an experience is used to represent the whole experience

metonymy

a compact paradox in which two successive words seemingly contradict each other

oxymoron

a statement or situation containing apparently contradictory or incompatible elements

paradox

a restatement of the content of a poem designed to make its prose meaning as clear as possible

paraphrase

a figure of speech in which human attributes are given to an animal, an object, or a concept

personification

a four-line stanza; a four line division of a sonnet marked off by its rhyme scheme

quatrain

a repeated word, phrase, line, or group of lines, normally at some fixed position in a poem written in stanzaic form

refrain

any wavelike recurrence of motion or sound

rhythm

the repetition of the accented vowel sound and all succeeding sounds in important or importantly positioned words

rhyme

bitter or cutting speech; speeching inteded by its speaker to give pain to the person addressed

sarcasm

a kind of literature that ridicules human folly or vice with the ostensible purpose of bringing about reform or of keeping others from falling into similar folly or vice

satire

the process of measuring metrical verse, that is, of marking acceted and unaccented syllables, dividing the lines into feet, identifying the metrical pattern, and noting significant variations from that pattern

scansion

a six-line stanza; the last six lines of a sonnet structured on that italian model

sestet

a figure of speech in which an explicit comparison is made between two things essentially unlike by using like, as, than similar to, resembles, or seems

similie

a group of lines whose metrical pattern is repeated throughout a poem

stanza

a figure of speech in which something means more than what it is.

symbol

a figure of speech in which a part is used for the whole

synecdoche

presentation of one sense experience in terms usually associated with another sensation

synesthesia

an interlocking rhyme scheme with the pattern aba bcb cdc, etc

terza rima

the central idea of a literary work

theme

the writer's or speaker's attitude toward the subject, the audience, or herself or himself

tone

a figure of speech that consists of saying less than one means, or of saying what one means with less force than the occasion warrents

understatement

a nineteen-line fixed form consisting of five tercets rhymed aba and a concluding quatrain rhymed abaa, with lines 1 and 3 of the first tercet serving as refrains in an alternating patter through line 15 and then repeated as lines 18 and 19